[baxtr]

I really like stratechery, but I don’t get this post. Example

Instead, I think the order goes like this:

Customer owns an iPhone Customer subscribes to Apple Music because it is installed by default on their iPhone As an Apple Music subscriber, customer only has one choice in smart speakers: HomePod (and to make the decision to spend more money palatable, Apple pushes sound quality), from which Apple makes a profit

Well, I don’t know. Maybe it’s just:

Let’s make exceptionally good products that people love

[narrowtux]

Also that line is a little inaccurate, since there's one more (that I know of) smart speaker system that offers apple music: Sonos.

[majewsky]

How do you decide which product to make?

[baxtr]

I have read somewhere, that Apple has a prioritized list of products to build, which they update yearly at their top 100 (?) leaders’ workshop. Maybe someone from Apple reading this could comment :-)

[endemic]

Vendor lock-in is real.